Vol. 145 No. 9, January - January 2013
Index
- Analyze the photo.
- Analyze the political cartoon.
- Dear teachers.
- Gun homicides.
- But can they parallel park?
- Talk about extra cheese!(NEWS & TRENDS) (largest pizza record) (Brief article)
- Mr. America.
- The test that started a war.
- Tweets for the faithful.
- $509,700.
- 18.
- 29%.
- 94%.
- Emotional games.
- One billion.
- The smartest brain ever?
- The gun debate: December's tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, is prompting a new look at the nation's gun laws.
- Your secret online profile: advertisers are tracking you online and compiling a database of who they think you are. In this essay, Jeffrey Rosen, a professor at George Washington University law school, considers what this means for our privacy and our future.
- Obama's slave roots: it's long been assumed that the nation's first black president didn't have any personal ties to slavery. But new research indicates that Barack Obama's white mother was descended from one of the earliest documented slaves in America.
- A right to jeer? Some sports teams are trying to limit how fans express themselves. Does that violate the First Amendment?
- Failure is not an option: China's annual college entrance exam can make or break young lives.
- The California gold rush: the discovery of gold 165 years ago spurred migration to the West and transformed America in ways still evident today.
- Drugs + your body: drugs can attack your body inside and out--from your teeth and bones to your organs.
- That hole in my resume.
- Is fracking our energy future? Hydraulic fracturing (fracking, for short) is a new drilling technique that can extract hard-to-reach oil and gas.
- Cartoons.